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One summer in between

One summer in between

SociologyYoung Adult
Pages
228
Published
1967
Language
English

Synopsis

A journalistic account of the impressions and introspections of a southern Negro college girl spending the summer as a mother's helper to an unusual family in Vermont, where a perceptive eleven-year-old daughter, a father who is both architect and farmer, and an enriched family life all contribute to her own growth and to the sociological observations she is making for a college course.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

ReflectiveThought-ProvokingInformative
Coming of AgeFish Out of Water

Genres

Sociology Young Adult

About the author

M
Melissa Mather

Melissa Mather Ambros, was an author and documented her families' story of moving to rural Vermont, in her gripping memoir called the “Rough Road Home”. They became homesteaders and raised cows for milk, cultivated beautiful gardens and grew some infamous potatoes! Excerpts from her book were featured in a series of Saturday Evening Post articles in 1958. She was born Nov. 12, 1917, in Chicago, to Arlisle Mather Brown, an English teacher, and Alfred Bruce Brown, an electrical engineer. She...